Beaches

Woodland

In Lilya 4-ever you were left gutted and horrified by what had happened, with this exhibition I came away more with a feeling of grim sadness.

When art photography tackles such a subject, there is always some degree of questioning of the motives of the photographer. Also the photographic treatment of such subjects can sometimes beautify the subject when perhaps it shouldn’t.

I didn’t come away feeling this was the case with this exhibition. It’s certainly worth a repeat visit, more would be seen on a second viewing I would say.

Neeta Madahar was quality stuff … my personal favourites her falling seed pods and her photograms – images made without film straight onto paper.

Joanna Quinns animations and drawings – some funny stuff – that woman has a pretty warped mind – will have to go back to watch all the animations sometime.

David Moore’s exhibition ‘The last things’ – photographs taken within a secure ‘secret crisis centre’ for when the world implodes … wasn’t too sure about these. He is known for photographing ‘secret’ places – maybe it was that we have seen similar places in films and also older facilities that are open to the public – I went round one near Brentwood. They were good photos, but didn’t seem to be too novel if that was the intention.